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Lesson OneReady or Not! (Num 20-36)17 Activities5 Assessments
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Lesson TwoCovenantal History (Deut 1-4)21 Activities
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Lesson ThreeCovenantal Challenge (Deut 5–26)12 Activities
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Lesson FourCase Study: Moses (Ex-Deut)11 Activities
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Lesson FiveLooking Back, Heading Home (Num, Deut)12 Activities
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Course Wrap-UpCourse Completion1 Activity1 Assessment
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Lesson 5, Activity 3
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[Record your answers in the workbook provided at the beginning of this course.]
In Deuteronomy 31, God gives Moses a song that he recites for the people in chapter 32. The song is for the Israelites to sing in the years to come, “so that it may be a witness for me against them” (Deut 31:19). The first performance of this song is a solo, but from this point forward it would have been a liturgical event, likely sung in parts by the Israelites. Some commentators have suggested breakdowns of the different parts of this song, based on changes in tone and shifts in speaker.
- Offer suggestions for who might have sung which parts.
| Verses | Content | Speaker |
| 1-3 | Introduction | |
| 4 | Creedal Affirmation | |
| Pause | ||
| 5-6 | Summary declaration of the indictment | |
| 7 | Call to remember Yahweh’s grace | |
| 8-14 | Recitation of Yahweh’s grace | |
| 14-18 | Declaration of the indictment of the people | |
| Pause | ||
| 19-20 | Declaration of Yahweh’s sentence | |
| 20-27 | Recitation of Yahweh’s judgment speech | |
| 27 | Declaration by the nations | |
| 28-29 | Description of the nations | |
| 30 | Question asked of the nations | |
| 31 | Declaration of the Israelites | |
| 32-35 | Recitation of Yahweh’s description of Israel’s enemies | |
| Pause | ||
| 36-37 | Declaration of Yahweh’s commitment to his people | |
| 37-38 | Recitation of Israel’s challenge to the nations | |
| 39-42 | Recitation of Yahweh’s judgment speech against the nations | |
| 43 | Concluding summons to praise | |